

Generation AI
Sean Anderson
Welcome to Generation AI, where we go deep down the rabbit hole of emerging and burgeoning AI tech. On this podcast, we speak with practitioners, thought leaders, and industry navigators to get to the truth behind the hype of this AI emergence. Our hosts are Sean Anderson and Ofer Mendelevitch and a rotation of special guests.
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Oct 24, 2023 • 44min
Generation AI Podcast Episode #3 Tri Dao
Tri Dao is known for his groundbreaking work on Flash Attention at Stanford, enabling a fast and efficient implementation of the Attention mechanism in Transformers, opening up possibilities for much longer sequence length in GPT-4, Claude Anthropic as well as in images, video and audio.
We sat down with Tri Dao to discuss the impact of his pioneering work on software/hardware co-design and some of the new innovation that's coming in the world of transformers and generative AI.

Sep 14, 2023 • 36min
Generation AI Podcast Episode #2 Alfred Chuang
Sean and Ofer sit down with Race Capital's Alfred Chuang, a Silicon Valley luminary and prolific storyteller. Alfred Chuang is a general partner at Race Capital and is also known for being the co-founder and CEO of BEA Systems, Alfred led BEA Systems to its acquisition by Oracle in 2008 for $8.6 billion.
Alfred chats about his excitement around generative AI and offers predictions as to where the market is heading, including how you can better take care of your houseplants. Alfred's experience in transformational moments in tech provides a lively discussion on how AI will transform every aspect of our lives.

Aug 10, 2023 • 31min
Generation AI Podcast Episode #1 Amr Awadallah
Welcome to the Generation AI Podcast. Whether you are a pioneer in this emerging ecosystem of LLMs and generative AI or are struggling to keep up, this is the place for you. On this show, we dive into the practical and theoretical applications of generative AI with a mission to strip out the hype and deliver helpful dialog from those best positioned to guide us through this vast ecosystem shift.
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Amr Awadallah. Amr is the CEO and cofounder of Vectara which is using the latest advances in Large Language Models, Deep Neural Networks, Natural Language Understanding and Information Retrieval.
Amr previously served as VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Before that, he co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and spent 11 years as global CTO.
He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! Amr received his Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University and his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from Cairo University, Egypt.

Jul 17, 2023 • 2min
Welcome to the Generation AI Podcast
Welcome to the Generation AI podcast, the place where we dive deeper down the rabbit hole around Generative AI and its applications. As you are well aware, since the launch of ChatGPT in November of 2022, Generative AI and LLMs have saturated almost all of our feeds and airways. However, while blogs and infographics on the subject are abundant, the number of organizations that have successfully implemented generative AI for a strategic initiative is still in the minority. With a mission to cut through the noise, we have launched The Generation AI Podcast. In this show, we will talk candidly and directly to individuals who are turning AI hype into hypotheses.


